Da Vinci Quotes
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Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Some promises and time disappoint us
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
A life well used procures a happy death.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
That which has no limitations, has no form.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and made things happen.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish ... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do
— Leonardo Da Vinci
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and, above all others, the most useful.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
He who does not oppose evil ... commands it to be done.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Although a man be not a painter, he may have just opinions of the forms of men.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
To become an artist you have to be curious.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
life without love, is no life at all
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!
— Leonardo Da Vinci
My body is not a tomb for other creatures.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.
— Yasumasa Morimura
Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?
— Leonardo Da Vinci
'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
— Ian McKellen
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
-Leonardo Da Vinci — Oliver Bowden
-Leonardo Da Vinci — Oliver Bowden
The cat is nature's masterpiece.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The painter strives and competes with nature.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Our life is made by the death of others.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?
— Leonardo Da Vinci
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
O time! swift devourer of all created things!
— Leonardo Da Vinci
To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Lies don't solve problems it just make it worst ... so liars beware
— Leonardo Da Vinci
For youth, everything is sport.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
When the fig-tree stood without fruit no one looked at it. Wishing by producing this fruit be praised by men, it was bent and broken by them.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Nothing is hidden under the sun.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
A gray day provides the best light.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
There is nothing in man or nature that does not ask questions.
— Curtis Bill Pepper